[1] His most recent book, co-authored with Chris Gunn and published by The MIT Press, is Inside the Star Factory: The Creation of the James Webb Space Telescope.
Wanjek is also author of Bad Medicine: Misconceptions and Misuses Revealed, from Distance Healing to Vitamin O[2] and of Food at Work: Workplace Solutions for Malnutrition, Obesity and Chronic Diseases.
[3] Among positive reviews, the work was described as "the best book ... on space exploration since Isaac Asimov" by Michael Shermer, publisher of Skeptic magazine.
"[8] The project has inspired government legislation to improve worker feeding programs in Mexico,[9] Lithuania,[10] Uruguay[11] and elsewhere in South America.
[14] While a student at Temple University, Wanjek was part of the Philadelphia comedy scene that produced comic Paul F. Tompkins and writer-director Adam McKay, his former housemate, among others.